1) “Steps Towards Decolonizing Craft” by Aram Han Sifuentes explores the problematic use of appropriation, primitivism, fetishisation, stolen, and stripped of context cultures become when artists and craftspeople are “inspired” or “drawn to” cultures not their own (via Textile Society of America).

2) Both Sides Now: Joyce J. Scott & Sonya Clark exhibition is on display August 4th through September 24th at 108|Contemporary in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The show addresses issues of race, representation, and injustice from two major names in the textiles universe.

4) The world’s possibly oldest rug, found in Egypt, is woven entirely from cat hair and had once carried a mummified human foot (via Atlas Obscura).

5) Diego Montoya is the artist and designer behind Sasha Velour’s lace and pearl encrusted mask (that she wore on the finale of RuPaul ‘s Drag Race Season 9), and here Velour comments on working with Montoya (via Creators).

8) The mended landscape artwork of Hannah Streefkerk is nature-oriented, and inspired by natural elements such as water and land formations, trees, flowers and rocky landscapes (via The Textile Artist).

9) “How Society Kills your Creativity” is a an award-winning Pixar short film on being told what is “right” and “wrong” when you’re young and how those actions influence you heavily as an adult (via Collective Evolution).